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Comet C/2025 A6 L-band image taken with UT1 of the GOTO-North facility at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, 5:45am UTC on October 4th. The field is about 3x2 degrees, and the comet was approximately 7th mag at that time.

The routine all-sky survey of our GOTO telescopes at La Palma and Siding Spring uncover all sorts of unexpected objects, including comet C/2025 A6 in this nice image from October 4, spotted by Warwick U. team member @bendgodson.bsky.social. This object may be naked-eye visible later this month

Congrats to Natasha Van Bemmel on winning an MNRAS Student Prize. The MNRAS editors selected her first‑author paper, An Optically Led Search for Kilonovae to z~0.3 with KNTraP, as one of six best student‑led publications this year, what a debut!
#OzGrav #Swinburne #MNRAS #NatashaVanBemmel

Bottom three images: Red blob, labeled millimeter, ALMA. Ring of green pearls, labeled visible, Hubble. Ring of blue dust, labeled X-ray, Chandra. Top picture: All three images combined into one, causing the blue ring to appear as a purple highlight.

#PPOD: Astronomers combined observations from three different observatories to produce this colorful, multiwavelength image of the intricate remains of Supernova 1987A. The central structure visible inside the ring in the Hubble image has now grown to roughly half a light-year across. 🧪 🔭

Staff and students from Physics at University of Leicester at the 4th year project poster day, 2025

🧪🎢 The University of Leicester open day is tomorrow! (Saturday 5th July) Come and see how great studying Physics in Leicester would be! 🧪🎢

(Pictured, students and staff at their project presentations)

Citizen astronomers see moment star explodes by playing ‘spot the difference’ A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

More on our recent nova detection from our citizen science partners, via Kilonova Seekers www.independent.co.uk/space/astron...

A starfield is shown with constellations annotated. The band of our Milky Way galaxy runs diagonally from the upper left to the lower right. Just above the image center is a faint dot that is annotated in yellow -- V462 LUPI, a nova that was visible with the unaided eye last week and is currently still visible with binoculars. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Nova V462 Lupi Now Visible

Image Credit & Copyright: Matipon Tangmatitham (NARIT)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25070...

Citizen astronomers see moment star explodes by playing ‘spot the difference’ A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

www.irishnews.com/news/uk/citi...

Breaking my Bluesky hiatus to share that our paper on GOTO0650, the new dwarf nova discovered by Kilonova Seekers and followed up with a worldwide team of citizen scientists, was published today in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Read the full press release here: warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre...

Breaking space news: We have made our own solar eclipse in space! 🌘

Today, we release the first images from our Proba-3 mission, which flies two spacecraft in precise formation to create artificial solar eclipses in orbit.

Learn more ➡️ www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

Celestial Emu | Sky Guide April 2024 The Celestial Emu, or Gawarrgay in Gamilaroi language, is a constellation that can be seen in Australia’s southern skies from April through to August/September.

Can you see the emu? powerhouse.com.au/stories/cele...

Image taken with the newly-installed all-sky camera at the GOTO-South site, Siding Spring Observatory, NSW Australia, showing the Milky Way

Collaboration members from Warwick University were on-site this month at GOTO-South, Siding Spring Observatory to perform some regular maintenance and install an all-sky camera, critical for remote monitoring of conditions. And not too bad for imaging the entire Milky Way.

It's #StrawberryMoon day! And before you scoff "but the full moon happens every month Catherine", this is the once-every-18.6-yr lunar standstill. In the Northern hemisphere the moon will rise just above the horizon (look S) before it dips back down again 1/🧵🧪🔭
⏰ www.timeanddate.com/moon/uk/edin...

ⓜ Full Moon-th Meetup with Dr. Almudena Alonso Herrero - June 10, 2025 - Vatican Observatory Join us Tue. June 10th for a discussion with Dr. Almudena Alonso Herrero, one of the professors at the Vatican Observatory Summer School!

Join us Tue. June 10th for a discussion with Dr. Almudena Alonso Herrero, a senior staff scientist at the National Research Council in Spain and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. She is an expert in star forming and active galaxies - and a professor at the VO Summer School!

21 years of Astronomy at Warwick: celebrating the legacy of Prof. Tom Marsh
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.20954
Ingrid Pelisoli, Boris Gänsicke, Keith Horne, Danny Steeghs, Gijs Nelemans, Kevin Burdge, David Buckley, Vik Dhillon, Stuart Littlefair, Daniel Bayliss.

Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College!

From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/06/e...

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